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I have been hard on Paramount and its forthcoming Guy Ritchie original series MobLand. But my anger doesn't stem from the show's bad quality or my irrational dislike of the storied studio. It's because I care. I wanted Paramount+ to succeed when it finally
Paramount+/Showtime
Since the success of Guy Ritchie's Netflix series The Gentlemen, the action-focused director has been all over the news, taking on everything from a Gentlemen sequel series to a spinoff movie Wife & Dog to a new Young Sherlock. However, throughout the fall of 2024, we kept
Paramount+/Showtime
It was early October 2024 when Deadline first reported that Guy Ritchie had signed on to a new project at Showtime, which would stream on Paramount+ with Showtime. Referred to as The Associate, the film would be a crime thriller, and Deadline had heard that Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Helen
Classics Revisited
The amount of time between Caligula’s original 1976 shoot and an uncompromised version of the filmmakers’ original vision reaching audiences in the form of Caligula: The Ultimate Cut is 48 years. This is nearly double the lifetime of the corrupt and maniacal Roman emperor at the film's
Netflix
TV host Richard Osman's debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, became a pandemic hit in the U.K. in September 2020. He's since released three more in the series, the last of which hit the New York Times best-seller list. Various attempts at a movie
Movies
Anyone who ever VPNed Doctor Who on BBC One last decade when it aired on Saturdays in the early evening has probably seen Richard Osman while establishing their iPlayer connection. The game shows Pointless and Pointless Celebrities, in which he was the reader of the clues alongside the main host,
Classics Revisited
While Netflix's lavish period drama The Crown may have established itself as the pinnacle of our collective pop cultural shorthand for how we understand not only the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, but the larger struggles of the House of Windsor, Peter Morgan's six-season epic
Actors and Actresses
Michael Gambon, born into a working-class family in Cabra, a suburb of Dublin, did not seem destined for an acting career. He left school at 15 to become an apprentice with an engineering company. His first contact with the theater was when his father, a communist sympathizer, told him
Movies
Helen Mirren is certainly no stranger to playing historical women, having portrayed three English monarchs (Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Charlotte, and Queen Elizabeth II --- twice!), a Russian Empress (Catherine the Great), and an infamous American gun heiress (Sarah Winchester). So, the fact that she's doing it again shouldn&
Culture
The Queen's Jubilee doesn't officially take place until the weekend of June 2, 2022, the 70th anniversary of her coronation. But that hasn't stopped the U.K. from celebrating ever since Feb. 6 hit, the day Elizabeth II ascended the throne. It's
Movies
Basically, put the Oscar-winning duo of Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in a movie together and chances are most Anglophiles would immediately line up to watch it, no matter what it happens to be about. Thankfully, their 2021 art heist drama The Duke looks like precisely the sort of
Catherine The Great
HBO's newest Russian-themed miniseries, Catherine The Great, started airing this past Monday night, occupying the same spot as Gentleman Jack and Chernobyl from earlier this year. Featuring Helen Mirren as the titular empress, the series is a gorgeously detailed piece. Catherine The Great follows in the footsteps